MacOS 13/14 fix for Bazille, ACE, Uhbik, MFM2, F'Scape

[Urs]

Hi all,

As you know, the file sorting issue with APFS in High Sierra (and now Mojave) took us by surprise. While luckily it coincided with the advent of our revised preset browser, we have not yet been able to tag all presets of all products and update the UI of each. So we took a backup of the old code base (rev 3898), made it compile under our current tool chain and added workarounds to save presets. In doing so, we have ACE, Bazille, Uhbik, MFM2 and Filterscape back up and running on those Macs again, with presets sorted.

However, we had to leave VST2 32-bit and AAX support behind in these versions - whatever happened since revision 3898, I couldn't bring those back

We will continue to update our existing plug-ins (including formats omitted now) with the new preset browser, but it takes an amazing amount of time. Therefore, a temporary fix:

ACE 1.4 APFS hotfix revision 7859
Bazille 1.1 APFS hotfix revision 7859
Filterscape 1.4.1 APFS hotfix revision 7859
MFM2 2.2.1 APFS hotfix revision 7859
Uhbik 1.3.1 APFS hotfix revision 7859

Please let us know if you experience any problem.

Thanks,

- Urs

[plugmon]

Hallelujah~~~~~~~~~
I've deadly waited for this!! It works fine for me macOS 10.13.6.
Thank you so much, sir!

[mustgroove]

Thanks very much for these! Working well so far in 10.13.6

[mustgroove]

One small thing I've noticed - in Bazille, I have a folder of presets I made which are all .fxb files, and this new version of Bazille won't load them - the folder shows up as empty. Any idea what could be going on?

[tasmaniandevil]

One small thing I've noticed - in Bazille, I have a folder of presets I made which are all .fxb files, and this new version of Bazille won't load them - the folder shows up as empty.

Since Bazille (rev 3898) does not let you choose the format you want to save the preset in, you must have saved those presets with your host software, rather than with Bazille.
I have tested it, and .fxp as well as .vstpreset presets will show up in rev. 3898, as well as in rev. 7859.

But not even revision 3898 would show me .fxb files, since those are preset banks, not single presets (those would be saved as .fxp).

Did you maybe usually load those fxb presets through your host software? Could this be?
I tried it in Ableton Live, which lets me save and load .fxb files.
This works, but as said, you'd have to use Ableton Live's (or whatever host you are using) preset management to load those .fxb presets.
Pretty sure that .fxb files were never showing up in our plugin's integrated browsers (I could be wrong here, but I am almost sure).

[mustgroove]

Thanks for the reply tasmaniandevil - I think I must have saved them with Ableton rather than with Bazille itself because they're FXBs (which Ableton defaults to when you save VST presets), either that or they were saved with a very old Bazille version, possibly the beta.

In any case I saved them as H2Ps using rev 3898 and then updated to 7859, and all is well.

[tasmaniandevil]

I must have saved them with Ableton rather than with Bazille itself because they're FXBs (which Ableton defaults to when you save VST presets)

Yes, I noticed that too, when I checked it with Ableton. I found it a weird decision to offer fxb as the default format, rather than fxp.

In any case I saved them as H2Ps using rev 3898 and then updated to 7859, and all is well.

Phew, good to hear that.

[rainguitar]

Works great and I can save my favourites!

[dangayle]

Thank you. I was sad that Bazille hadn’t been shown the love yet

[kgdrum]

I'm using Sierra not High Sierra or Mojave am I correct in assuming these fix's aren't required?
Thanks

[Hanz Meyzer]

Yes, then it is not required. It is about APFS. You also can update to High Sierra without a APFS conversion, keeping HFS+ (which runs faster here on non-apple-drives), by starting the updater app from terminal with:

For High Sierra:

Code: Select all

/Applications/"Install macOS High Sierra.app"/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --converttoapfs NO --agreetolicense

For Mojave you will need to make a 1:1 clone to another (external) drive using CarbonCopyCloner, then update (+ automatic conversion) and then 1:1 clone back to your internal, still HFS+ formatted drive. AFAIK. Maybe there already is a way while using the installer, but I don't know about it.

[pdxindy]

Thanks so much! What a pleasure to again see Bazille presets well ordered!!